How can we find spiritual meaning in a scientific worldview? Spirituality is a way of being in the world, a sense of… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
The Christian claim is: Nothing explains the facts better than an all-powerful, all-knowing, omnipresent god creating the universe and sending Jesus to… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
On a morning from a Bogart movie, in a country where they turn back time. You go strolling through the crowd like… — Al Stewart Copy Share Image
“The aim of science is to seek the simplest explanations of complex facts. We are apt to fall into the error of… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
I love karate, it's like a bible to me. But deep inside I'm so I mean, I'm so sensitive. — Jean-Claude Van Damme Copy Share Image
Naturally, since [the Sumerians] didn't know what caused the flood anymore than we do, they blamed the gods. (That's the advantage of… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
The best explanation why people agree is that they have converged on true answers. — Torbjorn Tannsjo Copy Share Image
Frazer is much more savage than most of his savages, for they are not as far removed from the understanding of spiritual… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
I say I'm Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison, Janis Joplin all wrapped up into one. If I die early ... I'll be just… — Dennis Rodman Copy Share Image
“I wonder if the explanation is even more complex than we imagine at present.” — Vera C. Rubin Copy Share Image
Titus Bramble: The only explanation for his existence in the Premiership is that he is already here. — Pete Gill Copy Share Image
I've been taught ever since I was a kid that sex is filthy and forbidden, and that's the way I think it… — Mel Brooks Copy Share Image
We injure mysteries, which are matters of faith by any attempt at explanation in order to make them matters of reason. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Oh, where is the Fairy Godmother of explanations when you need her? — Allison Pearson Copy Share Image
Science is not a thing. It's a verb. It's a way of thinking about things. It's a way of looking for natural… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
“The pre-history of our species is hag-ridden with episodes of nightmarish ignorance and calamity, for which religion used to identify, not just… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Being neurotic seemed to be a kind of wild card, an all-purpose explanation. — Renata Adler Copy Share Image
In the history and literature courses I took, epistemological questions came to interest me most. What makes one explanation of the French… — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
Any one whose disposition leads him to attach more weight to unexplained difficulties than to the explanation of facts will certainly reject… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Unless you had developed a certain independence of value, a certain independent system of value, a system of values that was independent… — Ella Baker Copy Share Image
Our human tragedy is that we are unable to comprehend our experience, it slips through our fingers, we can't hold on to… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Call saw that everyone was looking at him, the hands and cowboys and townspeople alike. The anger had drained out of him,… — Larry McMurtry Copy Share Image
The reason for natural selection's great success is that it provides a satisfying explanation of how evolution might have occurred: individual organisms… — John Tyler Bonner Copy Share Image